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- Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 7
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- 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
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- Sinéad C Mac Namara, Syracuse University; Anne E Rauh, Syracuse University; Michelle M Blum, Syracuse University; Natalie Russo, Syracuse University; Melissa A Green, Syracuse University; Shikha Nangia, Syracuse University
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group member receives an accolade or achieves a particular goal, it is celebrated withwithin and without Group. Introductions to new colleagues and championing of each other’sabilities and successes where appropriate are integral aspects of Group.Group has been particularly beneficial for members when it comes to academic writing. Groupmembers have peer-reviewed each other’s writing, particularly in cases where the members havepreviously written for, or been awarded funding from, the same or similarorganizations/opportunities. Other mechanisms to support each other’s writing has come inmultiple forms of peer accountability: expecting reports on daily or weekly writing productivity;meeting for smaller “writing groups” where members use time
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- Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 4
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- Caroline Ghio, Northeastern University; Sydney Anne Morris, Northeastern University; Hannah Marie Boyce, Northeastern University; Bradley Joseph Priem, Northeastern University; Paul A. DiMilla, Northeastern University; Rachelle Reisberg, Northeastern University
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, explainingcourse material to struggling students, adjusting to different learning styles, and acting as amentor for other students [9], [16]. Through addressing these challenges, peer tutors are providedthe opportunity to foster a variety of skills that are essential for their personal development.Previous research has revealed that by participating in peer tutoring programs in science,engineering, or writing, peer tutors can develop key leadership skills, including communication,ability to work in a team, empathy, and presentation skills that follow them after graduation intotheir professional lives [10], [17] - [21]. Another impact associated with being a peer tutor infields like nursing, science, and engineering is the enhancement of qualities relating
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- Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 4
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- Mary Kay Camarillo P.E., University of the Pacific; Eileen Kogl Camfield, University of California at Merced
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experiences with peers asa major contributor to their dissatisfaction with engineering. Many of these negative experiencesoccur in team projects that are ubiquitous in engineering programs. In the absence of intentionalinstruction on teamwork and effective collaboration methods, students—especially women—struggle and have negative experiences that stymie the self-efficacy and confidence-building thatshould occur during the senior year. The objective of this paper is to highlight key issues withengineering capstone projects and to identify best practices that result in better outcomes forwomen. This work evolved from the first author’s experience in teaching the civil engineeringcapstone course and from participating in a “Writing in the Disciplines
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- Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 5
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- Litany H Lineberry, Mississippi State University; Sarah B. Lee, Mississippi State University
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thecomputer science, art, and English departments, begin designed an interdisciplinary project-based computing curriculum that uses Hummingbird Robot Kits to bring merge creative art andexpression through writing with engineering design [16]. With the Hummingbird kits used in agender-specific informal learning activities, learners use art and other supplies to create the‘shell’ for a robot that they later program.The Bulldog Bytes summer camp program at Mississippi State University is an important link inthe MS Alliance for Women in Computing that places particular emphasis on increasing thenumber of women on computing pathways. Established in 2013 with funding from the NationalCenter for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT), the program has
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- Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 5
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- Jiahui Song, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Douglas Eric Dow, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Gloria Guohua Ma, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Weihui Li, Biomedical Engineering, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Lili Ma, New York City College of Technology
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[2]. In addition, different strategies were developed to recruit andretain students in the STEM education [4-5]. Creating quality, attractive STEM programs [6] andusing peer influence to motivate high school girls into the STEM fields [7-8] appears to beeffective ways to retain female students in STEM.Since 2016 our university has developed a program "RAMP for High School Girls" to exposejunior and senior high school girls to STEM fields. In the past 4 years, about 30 female studentsparticipated in the program each year. This year our university started a new STEM program forfreshman and sophomore female high school students from a girls’ high school. This programaimed to help female high school students explore STEM fields. Therefore, the
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- Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 7
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- Eleanor Leung, York College of Pennsylvania; Inci Ruzybayev, York College of Pennsylvania; Brandy Maki, Minnesota State University, Mankato
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autoethnographies on female faculty in academia are limited [2, 11]. This researchgathered autoethnographic stories from three female faculty members in engineering, the authorsof this paper, who had also experienced gender bias in their teaching. This was then organizedinto a ”collective autoethnography”. The analysis and writing-up of the project were alsocompleted by the authors. According to Ellis’s autoethnographic principles [8], stories are centralto this paper. The literature presented and the emotions evoked after the stories are told is all doneto change the understanding of what it means to be a female instructor in the engineeringclassroom.The three authors of this paper are early-career faculty in small teaching-focused institutions.Two of the
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- Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 4
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- Lisa R. Volpatti, Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Kara Rodby, Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Gurleen Kaur Singh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Bianca Kaushal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ; Kelley Marie Adams, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Paula T. Hammond, Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Sarah Rankin
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both subtle and overt discrimination[6] - [10]. Several strategies have been implemented to improve this culture, for example byestablishing peer mentoring programs [11] - [15] or creating more inclusive classroomenvironments [16] - [20]. In contrast to undergraduate engineering students who predominantlytake classes, however, senior doctoral and post-doctoral engineering students spend the majorityof their time in a “lab” environment—i.e., the environment of the research group, whethercomputational or experimental. Therefore, to create a warmer climate for these students andmitigate the drastic drop-off of women from doctoral programs to faculty positions, here wefocus on promoting a more inclusive lab culture.The pervasiveness of sexual
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- Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 10
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- Miguel X. Rodriguez-Paz, Tecnologico de Monterrey (ITESM); Israel Zamora-Hernandez, Tecnologico de Monterrey; Jorge A. Gonzalez-Mendivil, Tecnológico de Monterrey; J. Asuncion Zarate-Garcia, Tecnologico de Monterrey (ITESM)
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as bullying still exists from male students and in rare cases,even from some teachers. This project is a continuous improvement work and in futurepublications, results will be shown on the improvement of numbers of women in eachEngineering program and the overall improvement of their perception. The analysis andconclusions shown in this work can be applied to other regions of the world where similarcultural and economic conditions exist, as women still face many problems not only inside anEngineering faculty but sometimes even at home when they decide for an Engineering career.AcknowledgmentAuthors would like to acknowledge Writing Labs, TecLabs, Tecnologico de Monterrey, for theFinancial Support provided to this project. Special thanks to
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- Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 4
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- Sarah Appelhans, University at Albany-SUNY
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interesting in both Teresa and Christine’s narratives are what is omitted from the pitch.Christine was not singularly focused on chemistry or engineering, as her narrative suggests. Infact, she also enjoyed writing – so much so that she actually dual majored in Technical Writing.She tells me that the reason she didn’t pursue writing as a career is because she couldn’t see anyviable career options, whereas in engineering, there were plenty of job opportunities. WhereasTeresa felt the need to resolve her competing interests in the elevator pitch itself, Christine omitsthem entirely, perhaps feeling that her writing interests confuse the narrative too much or areirrelevant because they are not practical.One factor Teresa omitted was an admission later
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- Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 8
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- Robyn Sandekian, University of Colorado, Boulder; JoAnn Silverstein P.E., University of Colorado Boulder; Beverly Louie, University of Colorado, Boulder
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small numbers, already face heavier service loads than their majority, men peers. So,in this study we asked, “What differences have these programs made in the hiring outcomeswithin our college?”This case study describes some of the recent interventions implemented at the University ofColorado Boulder (CU Boulder) College of Engineering and Applied Science (CEAS), apredominantly White, very high research activity doctoral institution [1]. We present thedemographic history of the college’s tenured/tenure-track faculty compared to national averagesin the United States, a discussion of changes incorporated into the tenured/tenure-track facultysearch processes over the past five years, the hiring results over the past decade, and insights
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- Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 2
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- Anne M Lucietto, Purdue Polytechnic Institute; Diane L Peters P.E., Kettering University; Liza Ann Russell, Purdue University ; Meher Rusi Taleyarkhan, Purdue University; Shelly Tan
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analysis for a local wastewater plant facility.Ms. Shelly Tan Shelly Tan is an undergraduate researcher working with Dr. Lucietto. She is currently pursuing a Bach- elors of Science in Health and Disease at Purdue University, and began working with Dr. Lucietto in the summer of 2019 as part of the Summer Stay Scholars program. In addition to her biology course- work, Shelly is pursuing minors in Studio Arts and Chemistry. Outside the classroom, she enjoys writing creative fiction, making art both physical and digital, and moderating for her favorite online communities. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Professional Women Identify Their Professional
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- Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 10
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- Katherine L Walters, University of Georgia ; John M Mativo, University of Georgia; Uduak Zenas George, San Diego State University
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of fall 2018 had over 2000undergraduate students enrolled [8]. Although overall the university enrolls more undergraduatewomen [9], this is not true for the college of engineering. As reported in 2016 only 24% ofundergraduates and graduates seeking engineering degrees at this university were women [10]. A search of the literature was conducted using the ERIC database, and 89 peer reviewed,academic journal articles published in the last 15 years were found to be relevant to the currentstudy. To be included as a relevant study, the focus had to be on factors influencing women’sdecisions to major in engineering and/or gender differences in influences to choose anengineering or STEM major. Twenty-eight studies clearly met these criteria
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- Managing Dual Careers
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- Yuting W. Chen, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Jena Shafai Asgarpoor, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Robyn Sandekian, University of Colorado, Boulder; Jill K Nelson, George Mason University; Lee Kemp Rynearson, Campbell University; Shannon Bartelt-Hunt P.E., University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Janet Callahan, Michigan Technological University
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- Electrical and Computer, Faculty Development Division, Women in Engineering
the University of Nebraska. She received her Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Virginia and her research focuses on the fate and transport of biologically-active organic contaminants in agricultural systems and water reuse in agriculture. She is a faculty fellow of the Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute at the University of Nebraska and maintains a courtesy appointment in the Department of Environmental, Occupational and Agricultural Health at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. She has published over 95 peer-reviewed journal papers and book chapters, was awarded an NSF CAREER award in 2012, and in 2015 was a member of a team receiving the Grand Prize for University Research
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- Computing -- Increasing Participation of Women and Underrepresented Minorities
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- Laura K. Dillon, Michigan State University; Maureen Doyle, Northern Kentucky University; Linda Ott, Michigan Technological University; Wendy Powley, Queen's University; Andrea E Johnson, Spelman College
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- Minorities in Engineering, Pre-College Engineering Education, Women in Engineering
, stereotype threat, andfeelings of isolation, which can undermine their confidence and engender a fixed mindset [2][3].Such gatherings inspire women that they can be successful in pursing satisfying careers in atraditionally male-dominated field [4]. They boost women’s confidence, help them buildnetworks of peers and mentors to help them navigate difficult situations, and encourage them toassume leadership roles in changing the face of computing and creating transformativetechnologies [5][6]. Although not as well known as GHC, the ACM Richard Tapia Celebrationof Diversity in Computing (often just called “Tapia”) serves similar goals as GHC but for allunderrepresented minorities in computing regardless of gender.1 Tapia highlights the critical